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Reith LectureA Reith Lecture is a lecture in a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, and broadcast by the BBC. They were begun in 1948, in honour of the first Director-General of the BBC, John Reith. * 1948 Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual* 1949 Robert Birley, Britain in Europe* 1950 John Zachary Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science* 1951 Lord Radcliffe, Power and the State* 1952 Arnold J. Toynbee, The World and the West* 1953 Robert Oppenheimer, Science and the Common Understanding* 1954 Sir Oliver Franks, Britain and Tide of World Affairs* 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art* 1956 Sir Edward Appleton, Science and The Nation* 1957 George F. Kennan, Russia, The Atom and The West* 1958 Bernard Lovell, The Individual and The Universe* 1959 Peter Medawar, The Future of Man* 1960 Edgar Wind, Art and Anarchy* 1961 Margery Perham, The Colonial Reckoning* 1962 Prof. George Carstairs, This Island Now * 1963 Dr Albert Sloman, A University in The Making* 1964 Sir Leon Bagrit, The Age of Automation* 1965 Robert Gardiner, World of Peoples* 1966 J. K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State* 1967 Edmund Leach, A Runaway World* 1968 Lester Pearson, Peace In The Family of Man* 1969 Dr Frank Fraser Darling, Wilderness and Plenty* 1970 Dr Donald Schon, Change and Industrial Society* 1971 Richard Hoggart, Only Connect* 1972 Andrew Schonfield, Europe: Journey To An Unknown Destination* 1973 Prof. Alistair Buchan, Change Without War* 1974 Prof. Ralf Dahrendorf, The New Liberty* 1975 Dr Daniel Boorstin, America and The World Experience* 1976 Dr Colin Blakemore, Mechanics of the Mind* 1977 Prof. A. H. Halsey, Change In British Society* 1978 Rev. Dr Edward Norman, Christianity and the World* 1979 Prof. Ali Mazrui, The African Condition* 1980 Ian Kennedy, Unmasking Medicine* 1981 Prof. Laurence Martin, The Two Edged Sword* 1982 Prof. Denis Donoghue, The Arts Without Mystery* 1983 Sir Douglas Wass, Government and the Governed* 1984 Prof. John Searle, Minds, Brains and Science* 1985 David Henderson, Innocence and Design* 1986 Lord McCluskey, Law, Justice and Democracy* 1987 Prof. Alexander Goehr, The Survival of The Symphony* 1988 Prof. Geoffrey Hosking, The Rediscovery of Politics* 1989 Jacques Darras, Beyond The Tunnel of History* 1990 Rabbi Jonathon Sacks, The Persistence of Faith* 1991 Steve Jones, The Language of the Genes* 1992 There were no Reith Lectures in 1992* 1993 Edward Said, Representation of the Intellectual* 1994 Marina Warner, Managing Monsters* 1995 Sir Richard Rogers, Sustainable City* 1996 Jean Aitchison, The Language Web* 1997 Patricia Williams, The Genealogy of Race* 1998 John Keegan, War In Our World* 1999 Anthony Giddens, Runaway World* 2000 Chris Patten, Sir John Browne, Thomas Lovejoy, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vandana Shiva, HRH Prince of Wales, Respect For The Earth * 2001 Prof. Tom Kirkwood, The End Of Age* 2002 Onora O'Neill, A Question of Trust* 2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, The Emerging Mind* 2004 Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear* 2005 Lord Broers, The Triumph of Technology* 2006 Daniel Barenboim, In the Beginning was Sound* Official site* History* Listen to archived lectures* 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005
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